hey guys!
well, my friend with the jeep and I had some time to work on his install tonight
I wanted to make a video to help other jeep owners if we had some miracles happen and got it to work really well...... but we were more focused on the install. and never took a video. we did it in the rain.
plus I didn't think we would get more than a couple miles.
he installed a $20.00 yard sale Cobra 29 that had a cigarette plug adapter... the adapter looked factory... looks like a pretty nice CB... it put out 4.7 watts dead key.
this is just a play toy.... he knows I'm into CB so he thought he would throw one on the jeep so he could talk to me if we meet up places. he lives 18.4 miles away and we hardly ever see each other anymore... but I thought it was nice of him to get into CB because I was doing it.... but I doubt he'll ever use it unless we are meeting up some place... so we are not going to go crazy trying to get it perfect. and the cigarette plug seems to work ok.
he called me on the way over on the CB and I heard him a 1/2 mile from my base station.
I am not a fan of firesticks but I'll try it.. his install looked good he ground the paint off the metal on the bottom of the tail light bracket and the bolts went into the tub. the firestick looked nice on it about 18 inches above the jeep. the swr was 3.1 when he got to my house.
I got my Rig Expert out and we dialed in the SWR fairly quickly and I was surprised that we got it 1.4 on channel one and 1.7 on channel forty.... so I said hmmm maybe it will work??.... he drove 1. 8 miles from the house and I lost him and told him to come back and we'll try a different antenna.... he said he could barely hear me???? my base should have been blowing his ears out???
I wanted to put a k-40 on the lip of the hood.... but the hood has a 1 inch folded lip.... it is not like a trunk lip... the hood metal goes to the back of the hood and is bent down at a 90 into the engine compartment about an inch to 1 1/4 ...no way to put the K-40 on without cutting the hood.
I remember a couple guys years ago that had a Red Devil antenna or a modulator or some other names but it was a 75 inch tall antenna similar to a firestick but everyone said they worked REALLY good........ the bottom is a 18" fiberglass mast.... I thought the 18" would bring the fiberglass to the top of the jeep and then it has a very springy steel whip that I thought would work well for off roading.
I watched a video of a guy testing it and a Siro megawatt 4000 and both worked equally good... the scarlet warrior cb antenna is only $29.99... for 30 bucks I thought I'd take a chance as the people in the video made a big fuss over it.
I screwed it on without the spring and the SWR was 2.0 to 2.2 .... I lower the antenna and got it 1.9 to 2.0...... I cut a 1/4 inch then again and again I had it 1.7 to 1.9 but no matter what I cut, it would not go lower?? so soon I cut too much off so we put the spring back on... it was 1.8 to 1.8.... i cut some more to try to lower it but it only got worse...... so we stopped at 1.9 to 1.9 best it was going to get.... I don't know why i couldn't adjust it? I cut 4 inches off.
he went out for a test I could hear him loud and clear for a few miles.... then I had to really listen to pick him out of the noise listening on my Quad 5. Antron 99 .....47 feet to the tip... he went 6.6 miles and I could barely hear him... but I heard him... to my surprise he said he couldn't hear me???? I turned my radio up to 50 watts but he said I was all broken up.
he came back, we visited for 20 minutes and he went home..... I talked to him on the way home and tracked him on the google map thing straight as the crow flies distance.
I could hear him well for 6 to 7 miles then it was spotty...he said he could no longer hear me???? with all my power and tall base I didn't expect that..... he hadn't heard me in five minutes so i figured that was that......I called him on the phone .. he was now by the long horn restaurant over 10 miles away.....and said I guess that's it... give me a 10 count and I'll see if I can hear you then I'm shutting the cb off and going to bed.... not expecting to hear him.... and he hadn't heard me in a few miles..... he got on the highway and I could hear him better and heard the 10 count clearly.... I responded I can hear you loud and clear knowing he couldn't hear me then shut the radio off........... later I called him at home and he said after his 10 count he heard me say I can hear your 10 count loud and clear and now I sounded like I was in the same room??? ( I wished I hadn't shut the radio off but he hadn't been able to receive me in 10 minutes)....... he sounded very well too and that was 10.4 miles on the google map thing on the computer!!!! so 10.4 miles is great.... I can hear him but he doesn't seem to hear my 50 watts and 47 foot tall base very well?????. but still 10 miles in a jeep was more than I expected.... next time we have time I'll let him try my Radioddity CS-47 with 8 watts and the noise reduction technology.....
below is the video of the Scarlett warrior and the place I bought it
buyantenna.com
